Combined curtain-protector and sham-holder.



No. 871,703. TATENTBD NCV. 19, 1907` y KEITH. COMBINED CURTAIN PROTECTOR AND s HAM HOLLN.

APPLICATION FILED JLY 11,1907.

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- M. KEITH. COMBINED CURTAIN PROTECTOR AND SHAM HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 11.1907.

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lLouis, Missouri, have invented certain new Ythe following is e specification containing n which devieernav be also arranged between 'MARION KEITH, OF ST.

LoUIs, MISSOURI.

COMBINED CURTA.IN?ROTECTOR AND SRAM-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Potent.

Patented Nov. 19, 1907.

Application tiled July 11. 1907. Serial No. 333.338y

To all fathom 'it may concern:

Be it known that l, MARION KEITH, e citi-l zen of the United States, and resident of St;r

en d useful improvements in Combined (Inrteln-Proteetors and Sham-Holders, of which full, clear, and exact description, reference being had. to the eceon'ipnnying drziwingsf.

forming,r a part: hereof.

t My invention relates to a combined cnrtain protector' and sheni holder, mid the oli` ject of my invention is to provide u simple, inexpensive device which is deteehably ositionedwupon a window freine, and wiioh, when; in position, prevents the lower portions l of lace curtains and portires from being blown through the window opening; sind the head posts of e hed, thereby performing the function 4of n pillow sham holder` My invention consists in u pair et' hooks, which are detaehobly applied to the. window frame, or to the heed posts of n bed, and which hooks are connected by eil elastic member, such es a coil or" wire.

In the drewingszwFigure is e persipee tive View of my improve( device of' the forni used-asa` curtain protector; Fig 2 is iin elevation of the lower portion ol e window, with my improved device .in position thereon; Fig. 3 is a. horizontal section teken e. proi'i'il mately on the line 3-3of Fie'. 2, en(

shows ing the manner of attaching the hook to the window frame; Fig. 4 is e perspective View of the head portion opi bed, and showing the ilovicein use es a sham holder, li'ig, 5 is ii perspective view of the forni ot' hook iitilized in the sham holder.

The device es used for a curtain protector com rises a pair of hooks 1, the outer ends 2 ol' which are bont et riffht angles to thc body portions of the hooks, in order that sind endeI as shown in Fig. 2, andthe opposite ends ol' seid `hooks are bent et' right singles to tho body portions, :is designated by 3; and scl l l may be engaged behind the window (seeing, ,l I l cured to said portions Il nre the ends ofn wirel j eoil 4, of such length as thiit whenA expended l it will extend entirely fieross the lower portion of e window frame. Located on the interior of this coil Il, end se'cuied et its ends to the ends 3 of the hooks, is e section of tape, or cord 5, which is drawn tent when the device in position on e window ironie, thus preventing the central portion of the wire coil 4 from sagging'.

When the device .is e plied for' use as e sham holder, hooks (i tn. ze the place of the hookstprevionsly described, which books 6 are provided with curved portions 7, which engage the corner posts at the heed of e. bed, and thus the wire coil 4 is expanded between sii-id corner posts sind serves as e convenient lower szish of a wint ow is open, the hice curtfiins and portieren are drawn through the window opening,r by the draft therethrough` and, as o, result, seid curtains become soiled through contfiet with the window svreen o1' with the exterior ofl the well; find where o device ol" my improved construction is positioned on the window frame, the curtains ere prevented from being drown .through the window or into Contact 'with the window screen. y f

My iin' roved device is simple, inexpensive, eeiily applied to windows and the heed posts offlied's; and, when in use l'oims o very elleetive protector for lace onrtiins and support for pillow shams.

A device of the elassdescribed, comprising e pair of hooks, e coil of Wire having ,its ends secured to said hooks, and a. section of liipc passing through the coil of wire"i1ind having its ends sor-iired to the hooks.

ln testimony whereof, l. have signed my ininie to this specification, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARI( )N KEITH'. Witnesses.

M. l. SMiTn, li. l1. 'WALLACE 

